That was a grave weakness, considering that the State Department issues passports and visas for travel to the United States.
The town, which has an estimated 20, 000 people of Italian origin, has had its own consulate to deal with passports and visas since the 1950s.
The UK will move towards an integrated electronic border security system, linking biometric passports and visas with electronic checks on entry and exit, helping to track and intercept terrorists and criminals and to stop illegal immigration.
"The biggest challenge so far was finding out just how to go about getting bikes into Russia, all the paperwork I might need such as passports, visas and insurance, " he said.
No doubt there will be some benefits: fraud, in particular the persistent and increasingly annoying problem of identity theft, might be substantially reduced if biometric-identification systems, introduced in the form of passports, visas and identity cards, become widespread.
Long lines greet arriving fliers as bored functionaries languidly check visas and stamp passports.
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Both must be able to travel from Stansted on the afternoon of Friday 9 June, have valid passports and carry all necessary documents (including visas, if necessary).
The freshly-minted Saudi visas in their passports mean Tony and Joe can now take a bus through the Saudi and Jordanian capitals, a car to the Israeli port city of Haifa, then a boat to a European Mediterranean city.
Even with passports, Cubans need visas to visit most places and as a developing country, entry requirements are strict.
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The system has already been used on the Eurostar and Eurotunnel cross-channel services, and is claimed to have greatly reduced the number of people arriving without proper passports or visas.
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Dutch and German citizens do not require visas to enter the United States, but if Peruvian authorities discovered the passports were fake, in the US they would have been surely caught.
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